Sales-pad.



No. 718,648. PATENTED JAN. 20, 1903. H W. MATHEB,

SALES PAD.-

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NTTED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

HENRY W. MATHER, OF ROSEVILLE, NEW JERSEY.

SALES-PAD.

QEECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 718,648, dated January 20, 1903.

Application filed March 1, 1900. Serial No. 7,041. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known thatl, HENRY W. MATHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Roseville, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sales-Pads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the class of holders for multiple record-strips arranged in a roll, and which are commonly called salespads; and the purpose of theinvention is in part to improve the housing and mountings for the roll, in part to' improve the securing devices for the carbon or manifoldiug sheets, and in part to improve the pad in other respects, as will be more particularly hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate an embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the sales pad or device, showing the hinged cover turned back, as when writing on the record strip. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the pad or device, the cover being represented as closed and the roll of recordstrips mainly indicated in dotted lines. Fig.

3 is an edge View, and Fig. 4 aplan view, illustrating the devices for securing and distancing the manifolding-sheets; and Fig. 5 is a cross-section at line 00 in Figs. 3 and 4. Fig. 6 is a view illustrating another form of casing and retainer for the roll.

1 represents the casing for the roll, and 2 the platform or table to support the. strips when writing thereon. These parts 1 and 2 form the main portion or base of the device and have in themselves no specialnovelty.

X represents the roll, and a; the superposed record-strips forming the roll. Such rolls of record-strips of various kinds are now in common use and no claim is laid thereto herein.

The preferred means for mounting the roll X in the casing 1 is best illustrated in Fig. 2. The casing is made a little longer than the roll, and on the inner faces of its heads are constructed guideways and keepers for the respective ends of a rod 3, which is passed through the axis of the roll and forms an arbor for the latter to turn about as the recordstrips are drawn off. The guideway 4 is formed by mounting on the head or end of the casing a U-shaped piece 5, one branch 5 of which is pivotally mounted at 5 to form a latch-piece, whereby when the arbor-rod 3 shall have been placed this latch-piece 5 may be turned, as seen in full lines in Fig. 2, so as to lock the arbor in place. The specific form or construction of this latching device is not very essential, as it may be constructed in various Ways; but the construction shown is simple and satisfactory in its operation. The strips 00 are led out from the casing over the table 2, and overlying them is a frame 6, hinged at its end to the casing or table at 7. This frame may be turned back on its hinge to afford access to the strips and the manifolding-sheets, and it has a thumb-notch 6 at its outer or free end to facilitate grasping the ends of the superposed strips at for drawing them out together.

The manifolding or carbon sheets 8 occupy, as usual, places between the strips, and means are employed for distancing as well as clamping them. They are distanced so as to permit the record-strips to play freely between them and clamped to the table at their lateral edges to prevent them from moving with the said strips. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 best illustrate the construction. At each side of the table 2 are hinged one or more relatively thin and narrow clamping and distancing plates 9,

each set being arranged so that the plates are superposed. On the table, at each edge below the plates 9, is secured a fixed plate 9 and there will be one plate 9 for each manifolding or carbon sheet. In using this device the first carbon-sheet is laid over the table on the fixed plates 9 Then the first plates 9 are brought down over this sheet. Then another carbon-sheet is laid and the second plates brought down on said second sheet, and so on until all of the carbon-sheets and clamping-plates are in place. There may be any desired number of the clamping-plates 9, corresponding to the number of carbon-sheets and of the record-strips in the roll. After the carbon-sheets and clamping-plates are all in place they are pressed down and held by suitable clips 10. These may be of sheet metal and pivotally attached to the under side of the table 2, so as to turn out laterally about their pivots. Fig. 5 shows the form of the clip 10. It will be noted that in this construction the plates 9 and 9 distance the carbonsheets and provide a space between them for the record-strip to play freely through. At the same time the clamping-plates are so thin as to prevent the formation of a space which is unduly deep.

The pad has a cover 11, provided on its inner face with keepers 11 to receive a totalsales card 12, which may of course be changed at will. The cover 11 has hinges 13, by which it is coupled at its lateral margin or edge to the frame 6, and these hinges will be made by preference so that the cover can be removed and substituted by another like cover, but of a different color. This is advantageous for some uses where it is desired that the cover used on alternate days shall differ in colorfor example, a red cover for use on Monday, \Vednesday, and Friday and a blue cover for use on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. At the outer end of the cover ll is the cutter 14, which may be formed, if the cover be of sheet metal, by flanging its margin, as clearly shown in Fig. 2.

The operation is simple. The salesman turns back the cover 11, as indicated in Fig. 1, makes his entry on the topmost strip 00, (seen through the opening in the frame 6,) makes the proper entry on the total-scales card 12, draws out the bunch of strips 00, closes and folds down the cover 11, and while holding it clamped down with the thumb and finger of the left hand shears off the bunch of strips by an upward movement thereof against the cutter 14.

Fig. 6 shows another form of the casing 1 to contain the roll X. In this construction the arbor 3 is omitted and the roll is retained bya wire support 15, hinged at 16 to the easing and provided with rollers 17, on which the roll rests. The support 15 is held in place by the passing of wire bolts 18 on its free edge through a keeper or keepers on the casing.

As the bottom distancing-plates 9 do not require to be lifted or turned back, they will be fixed, as described, by preference; but ohviously they might also be hinged, like the plates 9.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A sales-pad having a casing to contain the roll, a table over which the sales-strips are drawn, a frame over said table, means for clamping the mand'ifolding-sheets down to the table, and a plurality of movable plates for distancing said manifolding-sheets, substantially as set forth.

2. In a sales-pad, the combination with a casing to receive the roll, a table to support the sales-strips, and a frame to take over said strips on the table, of means for clamping the manifolding-sheets to the table at their lateral edges, and the plates 9, movably connected to the table and adapted to interpose between the said sheets and distance them, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination with a casing or holder for the roll and a table to support the salesstrips from said roll, of the plates 9, hinged to the table and superposed, and the clips 10, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with a casing for the roll, a table to support the sales-strips from said roll, and a hinged frame to take over the strips on the table, of the clamping-plates 9, hinged to the table and superposed, and clips on the table which take over said plates 9 and clamp them down to the table, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 20th day of November, 1899, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

v HENRY W. MATI-IER.

Witnesses:

HENRY CONNETT, PETER A. Ross. 

